Rufus is a Open Source Windows program in the System & Tools category, developed by pbatard. The current version is 4.15; you can download it safely from its official source with the download button above.
Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives.
Features:
- Format USB, flash card and virtual drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS/ext2/ext3
- Create DOS bootable USB drives using FreeDOS or MS-DOS
- Create BIOS or UEFI bootable drives, including UEFI bootable NTFS
- Create bootable drives from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.)
- Create bootable drives from bootable disk images, including compressed ones
- Create Windows 11 installation drives for PCs that don't have TPM or Secure Boot
- Create Windows To Go drives
- Create VHD/DD, VHDX and FFU images of an existing drive
- Create persistent Linux partitions
- Compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512 checksums of the selected image
- Perform runtime validation of UEFI bootable media
- Improve Windows installation experience by automatically setting up OOBE parameters (local account, privacy options, etc.)
- Perform bad blocks checks, including detection of "fake" flash drives
- Download official Microsoft Windows 8, Windows 10 or Windows 11 retail ISOs
- Download UEFI Shell ISOs
- Modern and familiar UI, with 38 languages natively supported
- Small footprint. No installation required.
- Portable. Secure Boot compatible.
✨ Features
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📝 Release notes (4.15)
- Add RISC-V 64 support to UEFI:NTFS
- Improve the guards for using the "silent" Windows installation option
- Improve the ability to cancel during write retries
- Improve progress reporting for compressed image extraction
- Fix unrestricted XML entity expansion and integer overflow in ezxml parser (courtesy of @esadowski4) [GHSA-55r2-34wg-8mv9]
- Fix "silent" Windows installation failing at 75% in most cases [#2960]
- Fix a crash during boot when using UEFI:NTFS on Snapdragon X based ARM64 platforms [#2934]
- Fix first WUE option always being checked by default [#2965]
- Fix an infinite loop when using Windows ISOs that contain multiple WIMs
- Fix "Enable runtime UEFI media validation" checkbox not always being properly enabled
- Other WUE improvements/fixes for OneDrive removal and username validation (with thanks to @christian8641) [#2984, #2991]
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